I pin basted Fandango on the very last day of January. Next step is time with Max and a lot of free motion quilting.
This is the very last of the amaryllis blooms - it's been a marvelous run of reds, pinks, and whites over the past two months.
The driveway continues to reappear a bit at a time. The bottom third is still solidly frozen to the concrete but that will change in the coming days.
Temps are expected to rise into the 40s Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday with overnight lows staying above freezing. Neighborhood streets are still very icy and I won't miss that going away. I will miss the serenity of the snow itself and the way it quiets so much exterior noise.
Last week's Full Deck Challenge 4 shipping tag is now done.
These are the prompts I used from ShanoukiArt's longer list. You can find her on You Tube.
My weekly paper nine patch for last week is done. I've figured out that I like spacing the squares apart instead of keeping them tight together.
And the weekly collage using circles for last week is also done.
Looking ahead - this is the fabric pull for Ruska, a Camp Sefton quilt project destined to become a seasonal ottoman quilt at Young Man's house.
The fabric in the center is a wilder option for binding (I'm going to let him choose when he's here), backing fabrics on the right, and top fabrics on the left.
This is the other more subdued binding option.
Design wise, I'm going with the same approach I used for The Yellow Quilt (2016) but this time without borders.
(The Yellow Quilt was inspired by the Rouge design in Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Morocco book)
I'm planning to cut 5" squares for the top and let YM lay them out on the design wall so I can then sew them all together.
I'll do the same kind of thing but with larger squares/sections and let him design the pieced back as well.
And, unsurprisingly, another squirrel named NUTSIE has taken up residence in the sewing room . . . his arrival brings the headcount in my scurry of studio squirrels to nine (gasp).
But honestly, the way things are going, it feels like we all need a little more whimsy (fanciful or playful humor) in our lives.
And last but not least, here is my February 1 monthly photo of the backyard.
"We don't create fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay."
Lynda Barry
